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QuantWheel
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- Fee per contract
- $0.65 per contract
- to open a contract
- Exercise and assignment
- Free
- no fee per event
- Approval
- Covered
- covered calls and cash-secured puts
- Margin rate
- Not published
- on a $50,000 balance
- Countries
- US citizens and qualifying resident aliens only (no OFAC countries)
- from the broker's own pages
What you can trade
From the options agreement
- 0DTE, not offered
- Index options (SPX), not offered
- Options on futures (Not published)
- Spreads in an IRA, not offered
- Portfolio margin (Not published)
- Paper trading (Not published)
- 24/7 support, not offered
PlatformsWeb, Mobile
Cost to open
Per-contract fee only
- One cash-secured put1 contract
- $0.65
- Ten-lot iron condor40 contracts
- $26
- Twenty covered calls20 contracts
- $13
- One turn of the wheelput assigned, call exercised, 2 contracts
- $1.30
Exchange fees and per-order minimums are extra where the fee schedule has them.
What J.P. Morgan Self-Directed costs for the way you trade
A year of fees from J.P. Morgan Self-Directed's published prices, checked 7 and 8 October 2026.
- J.P. Morgan Self-Directed standard price$0.91 a trade, 0.8% of your premium
- $87 a year
- Among 21 brokers open to residents of the United StatesLowest is Firstrade at $3.67 a year, plus small regulatory fees it does not publish
- 10th on the fees it publishes
Not counted because J.P. Morgan Self-Directed does not publish them: clearing fee, options regulatory fee, SEC fee, FINRA trading activity fee, live options quote price, platform fee, inactivity fee.
QuantWheel
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No integration. QuantWheel cannot read accounts at J.P. Morgan Self-Directed, so you cannot use it with QuantWheel.
Compare J.P. Morgan Self-Directed with
Brokers that serve the same countries, compared fact by factFees explained
What each line of the fee schedule means for an options orderJ.P. Morgan Self-Directed
What changed at J.P. Morgan Self-Directed
Every fee, term and policy we track, with the day it movedNo change recorded since the last check. A change to a fee or a rule appears here on the day we record it.
Questions people ask
Answered from the documents aboveJ.P. Morgan Self-Directed
Facts from J.P. Morgan Self-Directed's own fee schedule and options agreement, checked 8 October 2026.